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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Oct 08, 2021
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New - RBR750 / RBS750 Firmware Version 4.6.5.14 Released

Enhancements: Adds support for the RBS350 Security Fixes: Fixes security vulnerabilities. For more information about security vulnerabilities, visit https://www.netgear.com/about/secu...
  • Toughguy5's avatar
    Toughguy5
    Oct 09, 2021

    WOW, this morning about 2am i decided to update my two ORBI RBS satillites first. and that went ok, till a fantom ORBI showed up in my Orbi App. i then proceeded to update the RBR750, that went well till it said it was online but it wasnt. i followed the directions according to Furrye38, (ty) and i unplugged the sats and then the router, waited 2-3 minutes then i plugged in the router and then the sats and waited........it took a few minutes and the router came online then the sats followed. it still took some time for all my devices to get back on line (about 60), which is normal thing that has been happening. then today was the test. we had some heavy thunderstorms roll in, these south florida storms alway knock out some power or damages some weak transformers to were the power goes on and off real quick. it happened 3 times in a half hour i also have the comcast modem and the RBR750 plugged into a surge and battery back up. the weakest like here is the sats, no battery-back up for them and they used to take forever to re-sync but after the upgraded firmware last night, WOW, the ORBI's came right back online which shocked me, i thought i would need to reboot the sats. but no input from me and the whole system came back online quick. i am no IT guy here but this is a major inprovement from the previous firmware that almost killed the ORBI system. thanks to all here on this forum, i have learned alot from here.

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CrimpOn
Guru - Experienced User
Dec 05, 2021

Could you explain a bit more about how you use SamKnows?  (Is there a device? A cost?)

 

I have experimented a bit with PingInfoView, a program that sends ICMP packets to a user created list of IP's every 30 seconds and records whether responses are received or not.  I ping all of the major DNS servers (Google, CloudFlare, OpenDNS, Quad Nine, CleanOpenBrowsing).  Since ICMP is based on UDP packets which do not guarantee delivery, the premise is that missing a response here or there is not unusual, but if all of the DNS servers fail to respond (especially several times in a row) then there must have been a service interruption.  This obviously might not detect a service interruption of less than 30 seconds.  I have run a test for up to a week and found nothing that indicated a break in service through my old RBR50 router and Spectrum internet.

 

My interest is academic (SamKnows), and not related to the central topic (RBR750 firmware release). On that issue, I remain flummoxed by the situation that some Orbi customers are nearly "dead in the water" and desperate while other customers with apparently the same equipment experience no problems at all.  This seems to be the case with almost every Orbi model.  Maybe SamKnows uses a technology that provides different measurements and I might want to compare it against my current practice.

 

Thanks